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Meet the Team

At Heywood Pension Technologies we believe that the role of our leaders is to put the needs of others first, to coach and help people develop and perform as highly as possible.

Our Senior Leadership Team

Chris Humphrey

Chris Humphrey

Chairman

Chris has extensive experience growing and scaling technology businesses and currently sits on the Boards of Aveva Group plc, an industrial software provider; Vitec Group plc, a leading provider of hardware and software solutions to the content creation market; and Eckoh Plc, a customer engagement and contact solutions provider.

Katie Davis

Katie Davis

Non-Executive Director

Katie has extensive experience in digital transformation, and has held a variety of senior roles in Government, including the Cabinet Office and as Director General of NHS Infomatics. Katie is also on the board of digital transformation specialist Kainos.

Sian Jones

Sian Jones

Interim CEO

Sian’s focus is to ensure we deliver consistently and well for our customers. She has 30+ years’ experience in the pensions industry, including scheme administration, transformation and implementation. This experience gives real insights into the challenges our clients face and how we can help address these with our services.

Ian Jarvis

Ian Jarvis

Chief Financial Officer

Ian has a wealth of senior finance and commercial experience having led teams in growth businesses with significant M&A, integration and transformation experience. Ian spent 12 years at Capita and was the Divisional Finance Director for numerous sectors. He brings to Heywood direct experience of working with the UK pensions sector.

Chris Connelly

Chris Connelly

Chief Strategy Officer

Chris has 30 years’ experience in life and pensions administration, solution design and proposition management. He has worked in public and private sector pensions and with life companies. In 2022, his work in PASA and MaPS to help improve the industry was recognised by Pensions Age with the award for “Pensions Personality of the Year”.

Louise Donohue

Louise Donohue

Interim Chief Operating Officer

Louise has substantial experience of creating and growing service offerings and has accountability for delivering all aspects of support and implementation services. An advocate for an agile, customer-centric and collaborative approach, Louise has led significant transformation programmes and delivered sustainable change.

Fredric Karlsson

Fredric Karlsson

Interim Chief Technology Officer

Fredric leads the Technology area as Head of Software & Product. Having started as a graduate 8 years ago, Fredric is now focused on scaling up the technology capabilities of the business to vitalise and deliver Heywood’s vision and product strategy.

Emma Langford

Emma Langford

General Counsel and Head of Governance

Emma is a UK and US (New York) qualified lawyer, with 18 years post-qualification experience of leading large teams of both lawyers and non-lawyers, in the UK and Europe.

Emma is responsible for overseeing all legal matters, including commercial contracts, company law, corporate, compliance and GDPR.